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Stephen M. Shortell, PhD¹, J. Jackson Barnette, PhD², Judith G. Calhoun, PhD, MBA, MA³, Diana W. Hilberman, PhD⁴, Michel A. Ibrahim, MD, PhD⁵, Sharon S. Krag, PhD⁵, Peggy Leatt, PhD⁶, Kenneth R. McLeroy, PhD⁷, Kathleen R. Miner, PhD, MPH, CHES⁸, J. Michael Moser, MD, MPH, FACPM⁹, Mark G. Robson, PhD, MPH, ATS¹⁰, William Satariano, PhD¹¹, John Finnegan, PhD¹², James Porto, PhD, MPA⁶, Joseph Telfair, DrPH, MSW, MPH¹³, James Kyle, MD, MDiv¹⁴, Kalpana Ramiah, MPH, MSc, CHES¹⁵, Donna J. Peterson, MHS, ScD¹⁶, Sylvia Guendelman¹⁷, and Robert M. Goodman, PhD¹⁸. (1) School of Public Health, UC-Berkeley, 140 Warren Hall # 7360, Berkeley, CA 94720-7360, 510-643-8451, shortell@berkeley.edu, (2) Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 140J Ryals Public Health Building, 1665 University Blvd., Birmingham, AL 35294-0022, (3) School of Public Health, Health Management & Policy, University of Michigan, 109. S. Observatory, M3525, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2029, (4) School of Public Health, UCLA, P.O. Box 951772, 31-253C CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1772, (5) Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 615 North Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205, (6) Department of Health Policy and Administration, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1101A McGavran-Greenberg Hall, CB#7411, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7411, (7) Center for Community Health Development, School of Rural Public Health, 1266 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-1266, (8) Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, 1518 Clifton Rd., Room 814, Atlanta, GA 30322, (9) Department of Community Health Sciences, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, P.O. Box 95, Rootstown, OH 44272, (10) Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, UMDNJ, 683 Hoes Lane West Room 305, Piscataway, NJ 08854, (11) School of Public Health, UC Berkeley, 140 Warren Hall, Berkeley, CA 140 Warren H, (12) University of Minnesotta School of Public Health, University of Minnesotta, Minnesotta, MN 55455, (13) Dept. of Maternal and Child Health, Univerity of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, 1665 University Blvd. Room 320, Birmingham, AL 35294, (14) Office of the Dean, Loma Linda University School of Public Health, Nichol Hall, Room 1700, Loma Linda, CA 92354, (15) ASPH, 1101 15th Street, Washington, DC 20005, (16) Dean, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, 13201 Bruce B. Downs Blvd., MDC-56, Tampa, FL 33612-3805, (17) School of Public Health, University of Carlifornia Berkeley, UC Berkeley, San Francisco, CA 140 Warren H, (18) Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Room A 223 Crabtree Hall, Pittsburgh, PA 15261

The ASPH Education Committee led the development of a core competency model for the Masters in Public Health (MPH) degree in the five, core “curricular” public health areas – biostatistics; environmental health; epidemiology; health policy and management; and social and behavioral sciences. ASPH developed the competencies in response to the challenges of 21st century practice; the proliferation of competency-based training in public health; increased emphasis on accountability in higher education; competency recommendations by national organizations; ongoing changes in practice; increasing incorporation of competencies into accreditation criteria; and the development of a voluntary credentialing exam for public health graduates. The first iteration of the model, Version 1.3, released in January 2006, is intended to apply to MPH students in schools and programs in public health upon graduation, regardless of the students' area of specialization or intended career trajectory. The five workgroups focusing on the core areas in Version 1.3 of the model used modified nominal group processes to identify and further specify 48 sub-competencies that emerged in “Phase 1” of the framework. Development and refinement of additional competencies not directly linked to the core MPH curriculum continued in "Phase 2." Workgroups in “Phase 2” worked to refine competencies in public health biology as well as specify competencies in six cross-cutting areas -- communication; diversity and cultural proficiency; leadership; professionalism and ethics; program planning and assessment; and systems thinking. These latter competencies will be incorporated with the discipline-specific competencies in a comprehensive competency framework for MPH degree candidates by the fall of 2006.

Learning Objectives:

• -- Explain the rationale for the ASPH core MPH competency development effort
• -- State the process used in developing the core MPH competencies
• -- Describe the framework for the 48 core, discipline-specific MPH competencies

Keywords: Competency, MPH Curricula

Related Web page: www.asph.org/document.cfm?page=851

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Any relevant financial relationships? No

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